New Field Service Policy - jw's assigned to neighborhoods

by skeeter1 43 Replies latest jw friends

  • undercover
    undercover

    It's the ole beat cop procedure.

    Put cops on the same beat so that the local citizens got to know them personally and trust them. This works especially well with foot and bicycle patrol cops. They become part of the neighborhood and are easier to approach for help or to report a crime.

    With dubs, if you're in the neighborhood over and over, the folks get used to seeing them, realize they're a fixture and not casing houses or trying to scam elderly folks. In time, people become less distrustful of them and will maybe engage them in conversation, opening the door for the dub to place literature or start an impromptu study.

    It's labor intensive as hell, but the WTS doesn't care. They're not paying wages. No overhead on their part.

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth
    It's labor intensive as hell, but the WTS doesn't care. They're not paying wages. No overhead on their part.

    And it keeps the members busy......less time to potentially spend with worldly friends or on the internet....

  • alias
    alias

    My point: The scriptures explicitly say that Jesus sent them out 2 by 2. Not individually! And yet he said that this preaching of the good news would still be accomplished!

    So the circuit overseer who made everyone work alone (and everyone who makes others do it against their will and better judgment) can be called on their "unscriptural" mandate.

    It was hard enough working in pairs in the "ministry"... I'd NEVER canvas alone in the area, even if I was giving away free candy bars.

    So glad to be done with all of that.

    alias

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    All this is going to do is open the door to trouble. If you get one witless one region, you are more likely to see trouble resulting when people don't want the witlesses. When a different witless came to the door, the householders wouldn't recognize it. This is more likely to result in pepper sprayings, dogs sicced on people, and even shootings because the same person is going to be pressured into returning on householders where clear disinterest was expressed.

    If they think they are going to get Armageddon here sooner by getting virtually 100% of people against the witlesses, they have another thing coming. Putting one person alone, or in pairs, in a territory is going to do this all the more quickly. They are more likely to get called on whether they like it or not, and that's what is going to turn householders on the witlesses. And, all it takes is a few major embarrassments about hiding pedophiles or some of the hate speech showing up in recent washtowel study articles, and householders are going to be even more against it. Whoever has to work in the same area all the time is going to look like a dork--and could be targeted for burglaries where they trash the place if they work the areas where they live.

    Regardless of what the householders think of it, it will lead to more stagnation. Every witless currently has something like 40 or 50 different territories, and could work any one of them on any given day. Under this stupid arrangement, each witless will have the same territory to work. They will get the same 200 or so doors to knock on, all the time. This will narrow the range of experiences for each witless, and stagnation will result even worse than now. And, they will work with the same partner all the time--even worse than now. That is another dimension of stagnation--what happens when one of that team wants to control the other or if they don't agree on basic things? Plus, what happens if someone gets sick and can't go out in field circus? What happens if one of them moves out of the territory?

    And, what if I was still in, got assigned a small territory, and was doing pretty well--until one day I got a job offer in New Zealand out of nowhere? And a visa offer based on that? And a pink slip from my present job (the store closed down)? They are counting on me to get those people into the cancer, and suddenly I am no longer around. Who is going to fill in now? And, what if someone else gets a 6-month "where the need is greater" assignment in Nigeria? Or, someone who was a pious-sneer can't take the freezing winters any more and moves to North Carolina? These situations would lead someone else to get extra work--and, that can only happen so long before people start dogging their assignments. At which point, they are pretty much screwed.

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    It seems they're thrashing about trying to find some way to reanimate the increasingly sluggish masses

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    If it's true, they will be defining the meaning of "harassment" like it's never been defined before.

    "Pest" too.

  • breakfast of champions
    breakfast of champions

    They evidently want the average publisher to feel "ownership" over their own little piece ofthe territory.

    Who gets first pick of all the Starbucks territories?!?

  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    Who gets first pick of all the Starbucks territories?!?

    The Field Service Overseer ( and wife ) of course

    I doubt if this is a sea change in procedure .. The idea has been floated before but not maintained because the Congo wants CONTROL. They do not trust the R & F to cover it alone. Why go to the Group F/S if you have territory already?

    Where Sis Blues goes, they won't give her more than 2 or 3 Not Home calls at a time in case she keeps them to herself !

  • blondie
    blondie

    Back in my day, the WTS discouraged the same jws holding a territory for years...they wanted them to be exposed to as many personalities as possible. My relatives held onto their territories and did know people better...but they did not have any more studies. But it was easier, more like a coffee clutch.

  • Balaamsass
    Balaamsass

    In years past many older ones had "personal" territories. Older sisters frequently got dibs on Apartment buildings close to everything (Coffee shops, restrooms, and less gas expenses) and they were sheltered from the weather. A lot of them formed no brothers allowed coffee clutchs and started late in FS.

    Many Circuit Overseers complained, because when they arrived they only had distant territories, far far away from Donut shops, and restrooms for them to work..LOL!

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